Error while Cloning
 

I am a registered user of SuperDuper! and I was able to make full backups and partial backups until about a week or so ago when I kept getting the same error:
An error occured that halted execution

Here is what the SuperDuper!.log shows:

[***] Saturday, November 12, 2005 05:58:57 PM US/Pacific
|05:58:57 PM|Info| SuperDuper!, version 74, path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, OS: 10.4.3 (8F46)
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Source Drive: /, name: Family iMac, device: /dev/disk0s3 type: hfs, OS: 10.4.3 (8F46), capacity: 233.64 GB, used: 37.72 GB, directories: 90408, files: 398757
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Target Drive: /Volumes/Primary Backup, name: Primary Backup, device: /dev/disk1s10 type: hfs, OS: 10.4.2 (8C46), capacity: 139.60 GB, used: 30.70 GB, directories: 77950, files: 310801
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Copy Mode : Smart Update
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
|05:58:57 PM|Info| PHASE: Volume Preparation
|05:58:57 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Enable Permissions
|05:58:57 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Family iMac
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|05:58:57 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Family iMac
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Permissions on '/' are enabled.
|05:58:57 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Primary Backup
|05:58:57 PM|Info| Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
|05:58:58 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Primary Backup
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Permissions on '/Volumes/Primary Backup' are enabled.
|05:58:58 PM|Info| PHASE: Clone from Source to Target
|05:58:58 PM|Info| ...ACTION: Copy Files from Family iMac to Primary Backup
|05:58:58 PM|Info| ......COMMAND => Cloning Family iMac to Primary Backup
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Copying different files with delete using script: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Loading 19 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Copy script command hash contains 19 commands
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Ignoring /.Trashes
|05:58:58 PM|Info| WARNING: could not remove directory: /Volumes/Primary Backup/.Trashes/501, error: Invalid argument
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Logging attributes for item: /.Trashes/501 of type: 6
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Type:
|05:58:58 PM|Info| Creator:
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kIsOnDesk: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kColor: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kIsShared: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kHasNoINITs: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kHasBeenInited: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kHasCustomIcon: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kIsStationery: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kNameLocked: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kHasBundle: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kIsInvisible: YES
|05:58:58 PM|Info| kIsAlias: NO
|05:58:58 PM|Info| chown /Volumes/Primary Backup/.Trashes/501: Invalid argument
|05:58:58 PM|Error| SVUclone: chown /Volumes/Primary Backup/.Trashes/501: Invalid argument: Invalid argument


I reviewed many other posts that report errors, but they don't all have the same error. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Best,
Rich N.

That's kind of strange, Rich. What I'd suggest is doing a single Erase, then copy, to see if that clears up the error. Then, you can switch back to using Smart Update again.